District Faces Losing a Quarter of Lunch Customers Due to New Portion Regs

The Potsdam (NY) Central School District is seeing a decline of some 200 students per lunch period this year, a 25% reduction that translates to around a $100,000 loss for the year if continued, reports the Watertown Daily Times. The reason, according to local officials, is the reduced portions required by new federal school meal regulations. At the nearby Sackets Harbor Central School District, which has seen up to a 10% drop in lunch participation, an online Facebook petition posted by a ...

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I work in a school and have seen a drop in numbers as well. We all need to get together and contact our house and senate representatives to get some amendments to the current law. It has some good foundations, but the calorie and bread limits take a scientist/math wizz to keep within the parameters set up in the law.

First it was lunch, then breakfast, now it is ala carte. Where is the money to provide all of these fresh fruits and veges as well as the health care that has hit us? We are supposed to be a business, negative publicity on misinformation,, but can't sell anything to subsidize all of these changes. No wonder we all have ulcers.